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Apple updated the MacBook Air this week, adding a True Tone display, while the entry-level MacBook Pro gets the Touch Bar, True Tone, and Intel’s 8th-gen quad-core processor.
The base 13.3″ MacBook Air gets a $100 price drop down to $1099 and the base 13″ MacBook Pro, which now rounds out the full MacBook Pro line with Touch Bars, starts at $1299.
You can find all the new models and configurations here at B&H Photo.
B&H has the MacBook Air for $799 (reg. $999) on sale as part of its Mother’s Day deals. Check it out here at B&H Photo.
Additionally, the 12″ MacBook is available for $999 (reg. $1299) right now. Check it out here at B&H Photo.
Apple quietly rolled out an update on the MacBook Air yesterday. Both 11-inch and 13-inch models received updates with new Intel Haswell processors and slightly better battery specs. The models also received a $100 price drop for the standard configurations.
The 11-inch 128GB base model is now $899, while the 256GB model is $1099. Likewise, the 13-inch 128GB model is $999 and the 256GB model is $1199.
B&H has the 13.3″ MacBook Air with a Core i5 processor and 128GB flash storage for $974.95 (reg. $1099). Check it out here at B&H Photo.
Along with the announcement of the upcoming Mac Pro, Apple also unveiled a MacBook Air refresh with the big feature being extended battery life – the 11.6″ models get 9 hours and the 13.3″ models get up to 12 hours run time. [Read more…]
If there’s one thing that I can’t help but snicker at, it’s people using iPads and other tablets to grab snapshots in public. But this shot that shows a concert goer using his Macbook Air to shoot either images or video at a Jay-Z concert is beyond me.
There are of cellphone photographers in the crowd, along with a stable of pro DSLR shooters in front of the gates. I can only presume that the dude with the Macbook Air spent his savings on his computer and not on the latest iPhone…
[via PetaPixel]
The full keynote from Apple’s WWDC is embedded above for those Apple geeks who hear from the horse’s mouth all about the new MacBook Pro models, iOS 6 and more new Apple details.
The above video shows off some of the real world potential of Thunderbolt. With the combination of a RED Rocket card and a Sonnet PCIe expansion chassis, even a little MacBook Air can chew through 4K RED footage at full resolution.
It was good to see some Thunderbolt products at CES 2012 finally starting to trickle into the market. See coverage for LaCie, G-Tech and Western Digital for other Thunderbolt devices.
In the wake of the recently announced models, Amazon just posted discounts for the previous generations of Mac Mini and MacBook Air models. You can get a last-gen MacBook Air starting at $834. Here’s the deal page for these products on Amazon.com.